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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, Jan. 21, 1952
AN ELECTION YEAR BUDGET
In President Truman's budget message, with its astro
nomical figures for spending, he asks for more than a
quarter billion dollars for water, power and flood control
projects in Oregon and Washington, $251 million for
work on the projects in fiscal 1953, compared with $ 196
million in fiscal 1952.
Mr. Truman said the coming fiscal year will mark the
second step in a planned speed-up of construction of
major power producing projects. Four major projects for
the Northwest for which funds are asked would produce
three-fourths of the power sought in the national pro
gram, , .
Three controversies are stimulated as follows In his
message involving power production or distribution:
Money for the Bonneville power administration and bureau
of reclamation to start construction of a power line connect
ing the northwest power grid with the Central Valley system
of California..
A specific endorsement for construction of fuel-fired steam
plants to firm up hydroelectric power in the area.
Start of construction on the proposed Hells Canyon project
on the Snake river at the Idaho border, with an $8,000,000
Initial appropriation.
Mr. Truman asked again for funds to start work on the
Ice Harbor project in Washington for which congress
rejected a $4 million request last year. This year he asked
for $5 million for Ice Harbor and Hells Canyon, two of
the four new starts in water projects requested in the
budget.
About $128,000,000 was asked by the president for
work on The Dalles and McNary projects in Oregon and
Chief Joseph in Washington, almost double fiscal 1952
expenditures. The projects when completed will have a
capacity of just over 3,000,000 kilowatt hours.
The Columbia basin project in Washington was listed
for $20,917,754, compared with $26,869,457 being spent
in this fiscal year. The money would be used to complete
the Grand Coulee pumping plant, to build canals to bring
water to some 60,000 acres of land, for additional switch
yard equipment at Grand Coulee, and to continue a bank
stabilization program along the east bank of the Colum
bia just below the dam.
The president's budget also calls for $67,696,000 for
the Bonneville power administration, to build up the BPA
system in anticipation of power output in 1953 and 1954
from such dams as Hungry Horse in Montana, McNary
and Detroit in Oregon, and the Rock Island project of the
Chelan county utility district in Washington.
Requests for fiscal 1953 for the northwest projects
follow :
RIVER AND HARBORS: McNary $68 million; The Dalles
$37.5 million; Chief Joseph Dam $25.3 million; Willamette
river bank protection $400,000; Ice Harbor $5 million, total
$134.2 million.
FLOOD CONTROL: Detroit dam $10.7 million; Lookout dam
$17.25 million, total $27.95 million.
BONNEVILLE DAM ADMINISTRATION (Construction
only): $67.7 million.
RECLAMATION: Deschutes project $174,643; Klamath
project $366,000; Columbia Basin project $21 million; Yakima
project, Rose division $151,500. Totals $21.6 million. Totals,
all projects $251.5 million.
Other water power and flood control projects, etc., in
other parts of the nation, like the vast Missouri Valley
project, are similarly well cared for by the president in
his budget message something for everyone but it
can be realized this is an election year.
18 MONTHS LATE
Senator Taft of Ohio made a surprising statement over
the week-end. He declared that if the Korean truce talks
fail, the United States will "have no choice" but to fight
an all-out war with Red China. He added, however, that
he hoped the truce negotiations would succeed.
This is the same Taft who in July, 1950, attacked even
partial mobilization of the nation for the war that started
in Korea a month before. Said Taft at that time: "I am
not at nil confident that the Russians contemplate an all
out military Bttack at any time, or that there is any cer
tainty of a third world war." He could not foresee any
possible spreading of the Korean war.
Eighteen months later Taft expresses a willingness to
approve an all-out war against Red China. Docs the
Ohio senator, who would like to be president, believe that
the limited war can be developed into a full-scale one
merely by saying, "Go ahead"?
It is this failure to grasp the ways of world affairs that
has brought deserved criticism on Senator Taft. De
spite what his backers say in his behalf, Taft himself
shows that he has not yet an understanding of the inter
national scene that would be required of the man in the
White House.
Those, like Bernard Baruch, who called for all-out mo
bilization after the outbreak of the Korean war, feared
the fighting in the Orient might result in full-scale war
eventually. They realized, too, that to be able to fight
such war if required, time would be needed to build up
the nation's military forces, industries and supplies. Air
plane production, for instance, is lagging discouragingly
behind now because the Truman administration and Con
gress would not mobilize the nation's strength swiftly
enough in the middle of 1950.
Taft, who was one of those not willing to go along even
on a partial mobilization back in those hazardous days
of July 1950, now is ready to order out what forces that
have been assembled into an all-out war in the Orient if
need he.
It is encouraging to find that he would not block such
action if the decision is made that there is no other choice
but bombing of Chinese air bases and communications
in Manchuria if the peace talks collapse completely. But
his late awareness indicates again that he doesn't have the
background on foreign affairs that he should, or he would
have approved mobilization in 1950 that would make all
out war possible now if determined necessary.
It's Later Than You Think
Watertown, S.D. (ll.R) The "Foar-Score-and-Trn elub,"
restricted to women 70 years old or older, was organised
here today.
The club mottoi "Enjoy yourself. It's later than yon
think."
BY BECK
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY CARL ANDERSON
Actions You Regret
Truman Said He'd Understand Henry
Kefauver's Desire to Run
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Should Congress Be Put
On TV For Many to See?
By ARTHUR EDSON
(For HAL BOYLK)
Washington P Three con- for even light-minded onlookers,
gressmen have been warmly de- variety of subject matter to out
bating the question: "Should match the finest variety show."
Congress be put on television?" I don't believe this is quite
Typically, they have come up the way I would describe Con
with three answers: Yes. No. gress.
Ves-and-no. ...
The debate, prepared for a And after getting his breath
magazine put out by the Acad- back, Wiley seems to shy away
emy of Radio and Television Arts from it, too.
and Sciences, appears in the He would like to see joint ses
"Congressional Record." sions of Congress televised, as
You, too, may have wondered they are now, and important
why it's not impossible to see hearings, as they sometimes are
Congress In action (I use the now.
word loosely), so let's have a But Wiley foresees numerous
look at the arguments: difficulties in televising actual
House and Senate debates. He
Yes, emphatically, says Rep. fes one problem with admir
Javits (R., N.Y.). His view: abIe frankness.
,,, ... ., ,. ... "In the Senate, he said, "it
"We are arbitrarily lim.ting ,d fc difficult' if not impos.
the scope of our democracy by tQ forc(J a'iimitation on
.v....g .m ums debate and thus prevent 'hogging
of the TV camera." "
By DREW
Washington Only two peo
ple knew exactly what happen
ed during the 30 minutes when
Presient Truman and the man
who may take over the leader
ship of the democratic party
Kefauver of Tennessee met to
gether at the White House.
However, part of what they
said has become known to inti
mates, and here is a brief sum
mary of what happened.
What Senator Kefauver did
not know was that congression
al friends of Speaker Sam Ray
burn, who not only want Sam
to run for president but are
jealous of their old Tennessee
colleague In the house of repre
sentatives, had carefully arrang
e to plant some anti-Kefauver
poison with Mr. Truman.
They had Congressman Mike
Kirwan of Youngstown, Ohio,
one of the most astute demo
crats on Captiol Hill, call on the
president just a few minutes be
fore the Kefauver appointment
for the purpose of prejudicing
the president.
Regardless of what Kirwan
may have told Truman, It had
no outward effect. For, when
the tall senator from Tennessee
entered, the president was most
cordial.
PEARSON
blood plasma recently shipped
to Argentina did not come from
people who donate voluntarily
to the Red Cross. This was
"commercial blood" sold to
Sharpe and Dohme, a pharma
ceutical house, by professional
donors who were paid by the
drug firm. The army will not
buy this commercial plasma, but
only accepts blood donated
through the Red Cross. So this
material was not being diverted
from troops in Korea. . . . Fur
thermore, only 29.8 pounds of
plasma was shipped, not a ton,
as stated in newspaper accounts.
. . . The erroneous estimate of
a ton of blood came from the
fact that a saline solution and
other material necessary for the
administration of the plasma ac
companied the Argentine ship
ment. The government has strict
rules governing the shipment of
this commercial blood out of the
country, and only a limited
amount can be exported in any
one period, none of which can
go to Russia or Its satellites.
- ' I I ( REPORT ) 1
- , CARD I
ASTONISHED BY 20TH CENTURY
CRIME CLEANUP
For the first time In years
the crime-ridden District of Co
lumbia is getting a good going
over. Credit for cleanup goes
to a lot of people: forthright
Sen. Matt Neely of West Vir
ginia who hasn't pulled a single
punch . . . Arnold Bauman, the
Churchill Is the End of Era
But Can't Seem to Believe It
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington- (yP) Winston 19th century Britain In which
Kefauver was just as modest
as Truman was genial. Prob
ably he did not know about the
strategy to prejudice the presi- Eard.hi-ttm'g New York atto'r Churchill looks like what he Is, he grew up was the greatest
rlnt hnf if Vin hnH knnurn his . - ... ' a man nf 11 Kind p nnwpr nn parth' Tnmmprp.
strategy could not have been
better.
whom Neely put in charge of the
congressional sessions,
Even Javits won't go whole
hog. He would limit television
to major debate. This, he said
And indeed it would.
Sinnp I don't own a television
would bring enough additional scti j can be neutral on this,
information to the people to Some 0f the finest, most ex
make for better government. citing moments I ever have had
have come while watching Con
No, emphatically, says Senator gress. But the average, routine
Gillette (D., Iowa). session offers few lures for the
"Congress is a deliberative television-watcher wanting a
and legislative body," Gillette quick thrill,
said. "It is not a theater, a A look at an average Senate
music hall or a sports arena." day might be helpful.
He thinks television would be On this average day the main
a distraction, and that Congress items were (a) the introduction
should stick to deliberating and of a universal military training
legislating. bill, and (b) a discussion of a
proposal for home rule for the
Yes, and no, says Senator Wi- voteless citizens of Washington.
ley (R., Wis.). The talk went on and on, for
Wiley gets off to this glorious four hours and 46 minutes,
start: By Wiley's standards, the Sen-
"Congress, at least in some re- ate came in with only a 50-590
spects, provides perfect mater- rating this day. The session cer-
ial for TV. tainly provided some news-
"The Senate and House have worthiness, and heaven knows
more drama than the most su- there was a variety of subject
perb television playhouse, more matter. But no superb drama,
news-worthiness than the most no occasional humor to furnish
up-to-the-minute video televis- splendid refreshment for us
Ion news reel, occasional humor light-minded onlookers,
to provide splendid refreshment See what I mean?
Red Objector to Singing Hushed
With V. S. 7th Division, Korea W) A Communist soldier
in a frontline bunker barely 20 yards from American posi
tions hurled insults at his' foes, but was effectively hushed.
Infantrymen of Company 1', 32nd Buccaneer regiment,
were engaged in barber shop harmony more volume than
quality. The Red interrupted: "You guys can't sing!"
Cpl. Felix Fratto of Salt Lake City, hollered back "You
couldln't do any better."
The Red then did a near professional job with "Tennessee
Walts."
But the company commander, Lt. William Glenn of Port
land, Ore., made a suggestion.
Soon the American troops were singing "God Bless
America."
That silenced the Communist.
OPEN FORUM
Motorists Beware
To the Editor: One Sunday
afternoon I washed my car and
noticed my license had been ex
pired for two weeks which was
violation. But it would have
been nice If notices would be
sent to auto owners like the in
surance companies do, even
though lt may cost the state a
few dollars; license plates In
creased from $5 to $10 in one
year.
As I was driving from Silver
ton to Salem on a Monday
morning to get plates I was stop
ped by an officer who noticed
the expiration because the plates
were nice and clean, (I should
have left them dirty) and wrote
me a ticket for the court In Sil
verton. My fine was $9.50 and
In the Salem court for the same
violation it Is $6.50. One other
motorist said his fine was $7.50.
Why the difference? Next time
I'll take the Salem judge.
(Now about those) parking
meters (armless bandits) . . . you
are forced to play the coin in the
slot device or be arrested for
committing a misdemeanor or
crime violation. They should
have some change machines or
cashiers for nickels and pennies
or larger denominations, because
while getting change you may
come back and have a ticket and
have committed a crime.
When you want to stay only
10 minutes and have no penny,
you put in a nickel. When you
return and want the 4 cents
change back, lt won't return
them . . . And when the city
first put over the meter
idea, it was to make more
parking space . . . With
all the revenue, Including
50 cent fines and over, (there
arc) not even good clean rest
rooms for the shoppers from
surrounding towns, tourists or
local people.
DICK SANDERS
Rt. 5, Box 86, Salem
(Editor's Note: Judge Alt
Nelson of Silverton says that
the law provides a maximum
fine of not more than $100 and
not more than 10 days in jail
for the first offense of failure
to display proper auto license
tabs. Extenuating circumstances
govern the amount of fine im
posed. Judge Nelson says his
usual penalty for first offend
ers is $5 fine plus $4.50 costs,
which is the penalty received
by Dick Sanders. The judge
may remit the fine entirely if
circumstances warrant.)
In his usual slow Tennessee
drawl, Kefauver recalled that
he had always supported the
Truman program, had gone
down the line on a lot of contro
versial problems, even going
further than any other southern
senator on civil rights.
Kefauver Asks Advice
The president acknowledged
that Kefauver's record was
good, though they had disagreed
on a few issues. The Tennessee
senator then came to the point
he was being urged to run for
the democratic nomination and,
in justice to his friends, he
would have to make a public
statement fairly soon.
Therefore, he said, he would
like to have the president's ad
vice.
From this point on, Mr. Tru
man did most of the talking.
He said that the democratic
party needed new blood and
he welcomed "young demo
crats" into national politics.
His attitude was friendly,, al
most fatherly. He thanked Ke
fauver for his candor.
The senator explained during
their conversation that he faced
the deadline of February 6 in
Ohio, where his supporters
wanted to enter his name in the
democratic primary.
Personal letters from Kefauver
authorizing primary delegates to
support him are now in the
hands of Timothy Hogan, Cin
cinnati democratic leader, but
Hogan has been instructed by
Kefauver not to make public
these letters before Feb. 1.
"As the leader of our party,
you have every right to know
about my plans, Mr. President,"
declared the crime-busting sen
ator, explaining that, despite
newspaper speculation, this was
the first time he had flatly stated
his intentions outside his own
family.
In brief, Kefauver clearly in
dicated that he would run. At
no time, however, did the Presi
dent tip off his own political
plans, and Kefauver did not
press him.
As the meeting closed, the
President stressed the point:
"There will be no differences
between us . . . whatever you do
will be with my understanding."
In other words, Truman did
not give Kefauver his blessing,
but did say he would "under
stand." ...
ATOMIC FEUD
The army carted a wooden
box to Capitol Hill last week
and carefully unveiled it behind
the closed doors of the congres
sional atomic energy committee.
. .Inside was a small-scale model
of a giant atomic howitzer cap
able of firing atomic artillery
shells. The actual gun is so
large that it must be hauled by
train.
Backstage between the army
and air force a hot battle has
been brewing over the use of
atomic artillery and baby A
bombs. Actually, the smaller
an atomic bomb Is, the more
fissionable material it requires
and the more it costs to pro
duce. Therefore the air force
argues that our stockpile of
atomic bombs isn't large enough
to permit us to waste fissionable
material on small A-bombs and
artillery shells. Instead the air
force argues that one of Its
bombers Can deliver an A-bomb
anywhere that atomic artillery
can fire. It also argues that the
risk of keeping atomic artillery
close to the front is too great.
The army replies that small
atomic missiles are easier to de
liver and that atomic artillery
has an added morale value. So
far, the army has been winning
out.
single power on earth: Commerc
ially, numerically, and militar
ily. It is ho longer that.
Bled almost to death by war,
it was left impoverished, lack
ing the power and resources to
pos-
cleanup . . . also Russ Wiggins. He retains what he always had,
relentless managing editor of the stubbornness and steadfastness.
Washington Post, who kept But he's the end of an era and
pounding away at the Washing- can'1 seer to believe it.
ton police and crime situation He is a Product of the 19th
until someone had to act. . . . century, which he loves, and is
Previously, U. S. Attorney astonished by the 20th. His hold its ancient empire.
Maury Fay made a sincere ef- sPeech to Congress was full of ...
for to spotlight the gambling valor Dut 14 was a study of nos- As its power dwindled, so did
racket here, but got the run- talSia' its prestige, for the prestige had
around from the police hierar- ... Deen bascd on poWeri particu-
chy. Now Neely-Bauman-Wig- n Wo" War H he was a larly among the colonial and
oin hav. minnpiinp i steadfast ally, which he remains backward people.
accepting Police Chief Bob Bar- now.in the struggle with com- Events in Iran and Egypt
uiu.iiaiii. nc uiuue Lirnt ticai snow now mat presume jibs bui-
in his talk. No one doubts his fered.
word or. his intentions. People everywhere after the
In the last war he showed the war began to demonstrate their
profound depths of his stub- deep desire for national inde-
bornness when, by his unyield- pendence. The desire had been
ing will against the nazis, he there. But it had been held in
carried his people to victory, check. The ruin left by the war
thp f inpst Ttafft in British hits- .. i i i n
linquent police is Welker of tory. ". became one of the great
Idaho. Counting the colonial empire facts 0f the mid- 20th century.
(copyriiht 1852) H had acquired by conquest, the During the war Churchill was
nnwillinff. nr nnahle. tn fnreRPA
Mother and Baby Doing Well
Boston (A) Mrs. Louis Murray, about 33, gave birth to a
son unattended early Monday as fire raged near her in a
four-story tenament house.
An ambulance and a police cruiser had been dispatched to
take Mrs. Murray to city hospital.
Two women, who leaped from windows, were placed in
the ambulance Intended for Mrs. Murray and taken to
city hospital where physicians said their Injuries were
not serious.
Fire engines summoned by police hemmed in the car of
Mrs. Murray's husband, Kehoe, and prevented him from
taking his wife to the hospital.
When another ambulance arrived for Mrs. Murray,' the
baby had already been born. Both were reported "doing
well" at city hospital.
rett, euchring Mm Into a
ition where he resigned.
When Congressman James Da
vis of Stone Mountain, Ga., was
put in charge of a D. C. crime
cleanup not long ago, he fizzled.
The senator who continually asks
questions aimed at helping de-
this. For it was he who said
he had not become his majes
ty's first minister to presid
over the liquidation of the empire.
The events that have hap
pened since the war, he said,
have left him astounded. And
even now, in the face of facts
and a diminished Britain,
Churchill looks with nostalgia
on the 19th century, as he re
vealed in the use of a single
word, "predominant."
"When the war ended," he
said, speaking of the Middle
East, "the Western nations were
respected and predominant
throughout" the area.
The people of the Middle East
could answer this by telling
Churchill the treatment the Brit-
By VIRGINIA MocPHERSON from their determination not to
Hollywood (U.R) Hollywood's Errol Flynn, who usually let anyone be predominant over
still digging itself out of the mans-it-about-town in a slinky them.
muck and mud from the storm Jaguar, bumped to work in a And Churchill proudly told
disaster and some marooned jeep. A huge oak crashed into Congress he not only thinks the
movie stars haven't been scooped Maureen O'Hara's front yard, other nations of Western Eu-
out yet. " And Vincent Price had to hire an rope should be unified, and have
Delicate celebrities who have- amphibious duck to haul him out a common army, but has urged
n't had their feet wet in years of his flooded canyon home. it on them,
found out not even a butler or The only good storm news But as for Britain no. He
chauffeur are much good when came from Universal-lnterna- would not let Britain take part,
nature starts kicking up her tional. They gave up last Fri- He still seems to think of Brit
heels. day, closed the studio down and ain as different and apart from
And Hopalong Cassidy's still told everybody to go on home. Europe. ,
perched high on his mountain- ' .
Butler or Chauffeur No Help
To Stars in Hollywood Deluge
MAILBAG
G. Y Bladensburg, Md.-
-Thc
top in his shiny, new, ultra-modern
corral that's got everything
but a road leading down to civil
ization. His only communication for
five days has been the telephone.
"I'm okay," he reported, "as
long as the stuff in the frozen
food locker holds out."
...
Humphrey Bogart, who could
n't have gotten into his canyon
home if he'd wanted to, waded
hip-deep into muddy water on
Sunset boulevard to direct traf
fic. Hasn't had so much fun in
years. '
"I couldn't get home for three
days," he grinned. "I just holed
up in the Beverly Hills hotel bar
and stayed spiffed for 72 hours."
During the week - end his
spouse, Lauren Bacall, phoned
irately from their mountain-top
mansion where she waited out
the worst rain in 12 years.
"You get home here tonight,"
she thundered, "with milk and
oranges for your son ... or
else!"
Bogie got.
...
Larry Parks, whose front yard
turned into a sump-hole, report
ed the home of his neighbor,
Lena Home, had just floated past
his front window.
One of the most nervous of
the marooned celebrities was
Jeanne Crain, who is waiting the
birth of her fourth child.
"We can't get out and nobody
can get In," she phoned her stu
dio. "And there's a stranded car
hanging over the edge of the
cliff just above our roof.
"We spend all our time watch
ing it and just waiting for the
mud to push it on top of us."
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